From Enslavement to Emancipation: Naming Practices in the Danish West Indies ...

• Main Authors: Abel, Sarah, Tyson, George F, Palsson, Gisli
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2019
• Subjects: naming; identity; slavery; Danish West Indies; kinship; ancestry; archives; memory; St; Croix; Iceland; Sever
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.17863/cam.52694; https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/305616

AbstractIn most contexts, personal names function as identifiers and as a locus for identity. Therefore, names can be used to trace patterns of kinship, ancestry, and belonging. The social power of naming, however, and its capacity to shape the life course of the person named, becomes most evident w...